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it out. Now they look like five little sisters, arm in 
anna (Pic. F175). 
And here, again joined in a tube, we see the stamens 
of the mallow (Fig. 176). From the hollow of this tube 
stand out the tops of the mallow’s pistils. 
Some flowers have so many stamens that you would 
find it almost impossible to count them. This little 
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blossom (Fig. 177), the enchanter’s nightshade (drawn 
much larger than life), has only two. 
I hope that you children, from now on, will be un- 
"willing to pass by a flower without looking to see 
whether its stamens are few or many; and I hope. 
you will try to carry away in your minds a clear idea. 
of the size and shape of their dust boxes. 
